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Subject: Userexit add a ROLE depending on the machine is a Laptop or Desktop
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minnesbergUser is Offline

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06/12/2008 3:28 AM  

Hi.

I have been trying to create a Userexist script that would check if the machine is for instance a Laptop.If the machines is a Laptop then it should be boundled with a certain Role.The purpose is when you roll a machine some laptop specifc packages (ex VPN client) should be added to the build automaticly.

Problem seem to that the Role can be Role1 on some builds and Role2, 3 or 4 on some build depending on how many Roles the machine have attached to it.

So would be cool if the script uses som sort on "NextRole" variable. 

Script checks if the Machine is a Laptop if YES then add "Laptop_Role" to the next role ex Role3.

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06/12/2008 6:26 PM  
Have you considered doing a test for hardware type within your CustomSettings.ini, something like is described here:
http://blogs.technet.com/benhunter/archive/2007/05/20/bdd-2007-tips-and-tricks-identifying-hardware-types.aspx
and then defining your role and/or the apps to install within the [Laptop-True] section.

Alternatively, if you wanted to do it in an exitscript, you could have some code something like this to find out how many other roles have been defined so far (no idea if this would actually work ;):

Set oEnvironment = CreateObject("Microsoft.SMS.TSEnvironment")
Set dicRoles = oEnvironment.ListItem("Role")
iNextAvailableRoleNumber = dicRoles.Count + 1

To add an additional role, I think you could just then do this:

dicRoles.Add "Laptop_Role", ""
oEnvironment.ListItem("Role") = dicRoles
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06/17/2008 2:49 AM  

Thanks for your reply.

I got my head around it now :)

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